About 800 people reject homophobic discrimination with a massive "kiss"

GAYLES.TV.- Some 800 people protested this Wednesday with chants, white roses and a massive «Besatón" in front of Andean shopping center de Bogota,. It was an act of protest against the discrimination that two young people suffered last Sunday, April 14, when they were accused of carrying out «obscene acts»In front of children while they kissed in the place.

Under the motto «the kisses are affection, not crime»The crowd gathered LGTB + rejecting sex discrimination. The "besatón« it was organized after Pedro Esteban Miranda y Nicolás Téllez were sanctioned by a supposed obscene act, something that the images revealed by the administration of the place do not show. The fact of alleged discrimination happened when the two men met in the commercial premises with the intention of getting to know each other better as a couple.

Both are students of the faculty of Medicine of the National University. What would be his second date turned into a public scandal because of the attacks of Pedro Costa, a man whose aggressive claim went viral in social networks. He could not stand seeing the young people holding hands and kissing, near a small playground. The fact outraged not only the couple but also aroused the solidarity of the community LGBT +.

The policemen who took care of the case would not have confronted the versions and proceeded to impose on the couple of young people an appearance for alleged sexual acts and exhibitionism in public, while the aggressor went unscathed after the scandal. In a statement, the police acknowledged that the procedure could have been wrong and announced that it would review it.

That's why activists LGTB + They convened the demonstration in the same place as the events, as a pedagogical act that sought to raise awareness among those who commit acts of gender intolerance.